This routine unlocks the mutex specified by the mutex argument. This routine behaves as follows, based on the type of the specified mutex: o For a normal, default, or errorcheck mutex: if the mutex is owned by the calling thread, it is unlocked with no current owner. Further, for a normal or default mutex: if the mutex is not locked or is locked by another thread, this routine can also return [EPERM], but this is not guaranteed. For an errorcheck mutex: if the mutex is not locked or is locked by another thread, this routine returns [EPERM]. o For a recursive mutex: if the mutex is owned by the calling thread, the lock count is decremented. The mutex remains locked and owned until the lock count reaches zero (0). When the lock count reaches zero, the mutex becomes unlocked with no current owner. If one or more threads are waiting to lock the specified mutex, and the mutex becomes unlocked, this routine causes one thread to unblock and to try to acquire the mutex. The scheduling policy is used to determine which thread to unblock. For the SCHED_FIFO and SCHED_RR policies, a blocked thread is chosen in priority order, using first-in/first-out within priorities. Note that the mutex might not be acquired by the awakened thread, if any other running thread attempts to lock the mutex first. On Tru64 UNIX, if a signal is delivered to a thread waiting for a mutex, upon return from the signal handler, the thread resumes waiting for the mutex as if it was not interrupted.